Mark Blundell’s company MB Partners is to manage the commercial rights of Kimi Raikkonen, in effect helping the Finn to generate more cash from personal sponsors and so on.

MB Partners will be working in “collaboration with his management and advisors,” Blundell having been a long time friend and some time on-track competitor of Steve Robertson.

Blundell said: “I have known Kimi’s management and advisors for a very long time and as such, we are working closely together on behalf of Kimi. He is without a doubt one of the best F1 drivers on the grid and combined with Ferrari are a powerful commercial proposition.”

quote A friend of mine, Évi, got to chat with Heikki Kulta when they were travelling from Jerez. Just a few minutes ago. And he gave her a couple of quotes from Kimi.1. Kimi is satisfied with the car.2. His back is completely ok now!3. He had to lose 4 kilos due to the new weight rules.

I think that Kimi being satisfied with the car is very good news. Kimi can always tell those kind of things about the car from the first tests, plus he's always honest about it. He said in an interview once, that he could tell from the begining if it was going to be a good or crappy season from his first feeling of the car. So I was actually waiting to hear what his feeling was.

Remember how he told Lotus a year ago that the car felt good. And after he won Australian GP he told them: "I told you the car was good"!